Your Turn: Aug. 13, 2013

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August 12, 2013
: Updated: August 12, 2013 4:13pm

A soldier stands guard outside the courthouse where the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is taking place. A reader says the media should focus on the victims, not on the man who acknowledges killing them.

Ms. Olenick, a retired dog catcher, mentioned that not every dog picked up by the dog catchers can be rehabilitated and, as a result, many are killed. Animal Care Services claims it is a 70 percent no-kill shelter since the public has adopted, rescued or fostered many dogs. What about the other 30 percent?

Dogs can be fostered to be taken to other parts of the country where people are waiting to give them a forever home. Alamo Rescue Friends and Tracy's Dogs.com have been doing this. Trips are already lined up, but they need more volunteers to foster the dogs until departure dates.

Imagine how many dogs could be saved if organizations, schools, clubs, corporations and service groups volunteered their time, homes and love. Help dogs find a forever family and not have them take their last walk at ACS to be killed. Visit Animal Care Services and ACS Brooks.

Also, ACS representatives could go to the schools to talk about the ability and responsibilities of taking care of pets. There could be school projects on maintaining, donating or volunteering. Think of the dogs.

Guadalupe Loera

Honor the heroes

Re: “I am the shooter,” Front Page, Aug. 7:

The victims of the horrific shooting in Waco, who are the heroes, need front page status, not the picture, again, of the shooter.

Those innocent soldiers who were and continue to be his victims need to be honored every day, now, and in the future, for they were innocent. This admitted shooter should not continue to receive front page status with his picture, words or thoughts. He is the perpetrator. Let us remember who was at their posts doing their jobs.

I recall the picture of the boots, guns and helmets to honor the victims before President Obama spoke at the memorial in Waco for these heroes on Nov. 10, 2009. Continue to honor the victims with this picture, or their faces. He has taken that away. Let us never forget those innocent victims.

Re: “Why won't my party protect the rights of women,” Allison Catalano, Another View, July 21:

Thank you, Allison, for speaking up for those of us who have not raised our voices enough within the party. I, too, feel that our party is failing the women of Texas and possibly around the nation when it speaks falsely about why it wanted this law passed. It was not for keeping women safe, as was stated; it was for making abortions more difficult to attain. It was for injecting government into conversations meant for doctors and patients.

The GOP has always been my party. It's always been a lady, but now it's an old lady who hasn't changed her style in 40 years. It sings old tunes hoping for a new sound. It's stale and frumpy. It doesn't know how to “turn anyone on” anymore. We need new faces and thoughts to regenerate new conversations about old subjects.